Our People

Global leadership

Philipp Kampshoff
Senior PartnerHouston
Leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in the Americas
Kersten Heineke
PartnerFrankfurt
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients across the automotive industry, incumbent industries, mobility disruptors and investors
Timo Möller
PartnerCologne
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility with a focus on the strategic and operational questions around disruptive trends; supports scale-ups and incumbents in transforming mobility businesses
Dr. Ruth Heuss
Senior PartnerBerlin
Co-leads McKinsey’s Operations Practice globally, and serves companies in the automotive and machinery industries on future mobility, decarbonization strategies, and product development
Emily Shao
PartnerDetroit
Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models, and sustainability
Andreas Tschiesner
Senior PartnerMunich
Advises companies on strategic questions and challenges related to technology and innovation, with a key focus on large-scale performance transformations, end-to-end digitization, and the development of new business models

Regional leaders

Seunghyuk Choi
PartnerSeoul
Advises advanced industries clients from the automotive and high-tech space on pursuing strategic-business transformations with a focus on future mobility, IoT, Industry 4.0, and sustainability topics
Shivanshu Gupta
Senior PartnerBengaluru
Leads McKinsey’s Advanced Industries in India, and is a leader in our global Operations and Advanced Industries Practices
Kersten Heineke
PartnerFrankfurt
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients across the automotive industry, incumbent industries, mobility disruptors and investors
Russell Hensley
PartnerDetroit
Co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in the Americas
Philipp Kampshoff
Senior PartnerHouston
Leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in the Americas
Jitesh Khanna
PartnerGurugram
Leads McKinsey’s Center for Future Mobility in India, advises on electronic vehicle (EV) strategy and is a core member of the Asia margin transformation group
Simon Middleton
PartnerLondon
Serves clients on disruptive strategy and operational transformations, with a particular focus in the automotive and industrials sectors
Robin Riedel
PartnerBay Area
Co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility
Takehito Sumikawa
Senior PartnerTokyo
Drives company-wide transformations, digital/operation transformations and systematic new business creation projects of global companies of Automotive, Technology, Communications and Travel/Logistics/Transport enterprises aspiring for long term growth
Ting Wu
PartnerShenzhen
Serves global automotive and components companies with extensive experience serving global automakers and suppliers

Zero emission mobility

Andreas Breiter
PartnerBay Area
Helps clients optimize capital expenditures and material costs while addressing the opportunities ahead as mobility becomes more autonomous, green, and connected
Jakob Fleischmann
PartnerMunich
Co-leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team and advises clients along the end-to-end battery value chain from raw materials and cell manufacturing to electric vehicles and recycling, leveraging his 15 years of experience in the industry
Steffen Fuchs
Senior PartnerDallas
Coleader of McKinsey’s Industrials & Electronics Practice, advises companies on strategic questions with a focus on capital productivity, digital, and innovation
Mikael Hanicke
Senior PartnerGothenburg
Advises clients on transformational change across functions, operations strategy and implementation, digital, and advanced analytics and has deep experience running several restructuring programs with high impact
Russell Hensley
PartnerDetroit
Co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in the Americas
Patrick Hertzke
PartnerLondon
Drives impact for automotive and industrial clients in a variety of areas, including strategy, marketing, and product development, with considerable experience in driving large-scale transformations, and acts as the leader of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility’s global vehicle-electrification work
Martin Linder
Senior PartnerMunich
Leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team; global colead for the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies as well as our sustainability work within advanced industries in Europe
Raphael Rettig
PartnerDallas
Co-leads the McKinsey Battery Accelerator Team and the Capital Excellence practice for Advanced Industries and helps automotive and basic-materials clients excel in the transition to e-mobility. He also architects and runs major performance transformations.
Patrick Schaufuss
PartnerMunich
Supports automotive clients in the transition to zero-emission mobility across the entire ecosystem from raw materials to suppliers, OEMs, start-ups, investors, and the public sector
Markus Wilthaner
PartnerBrussels
Passionate about building businesses in hydrogen and batteries, working with industry leaders, start-ups, and public institutions
Ting Wu
PartnerShenzhen
Serves global automotive and components companies with extensive experience serving global automakers and suppliers

Autonomous vehicles

Ani Kelkar
PartnerBoston
Advises incumbents, investors, and disruptors in the automotive, aerospace, energy, industrial automation, and robotics sectors on topics including strategy, growth, and operations.
Martin Kellner
PartnerMunich
Advises clients on strategy and growth topics with a focus on automotive software and autonomous driving
Emily Shao
PartnerDetroit
Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models, and sustainability
Ting Wu
PartnerShenzhen
Serves global automotive and components companies with extensive experience serving global automakers and suppliers

Next gen go-to market & digital services

Michele Bertoncello
PartnerMilan
Advises clients in the automotive and assembly sector on strategy, marketing and sales, and innovation issues
Asad Husain
PartnerToronto
Leverages expertise in strategy and operations to help clients execute programs that accelerate growth, boost profitability, and deliver sustainable performance improvements
Tobias Schneiderbauer
PartnerMunich
Serves global automotive and mobility companies on technology disruptions and the shift towards lifecycle products and services; co-leads connectivity at the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility

Software defined vehicles & EE architecture

Martin Kellner
PartnerMunich
Advises clients on strategy and growth topics with a focus on automotive software and autonomous driving

Urban/ shared mobility and MaaS

Robin Riedel
PartnerBay Area
Co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility

New form factors

Kersten Heineke
PartnerFrankfurt
Coleads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and serves clients across the automotive industry, incumbent industries, mobility disruptors and investors